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UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

E. oLAPP, oF DEDHAM, iviAssAcHUsETTs AssIGNoR `To oLAPP AND ALDEN.

. SAD-IRON.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 7,952, dated February 25, 1851.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, EDWARD CLAPE, of Dedham, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Iron for Polishing Starched Clothes; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the`following specification and accompanying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof.

Of the said drawings Figure l, denotes a side elevation,F ig. 2, an end elevation, and Fig. 3, a central and longitudinal section of my improved sad iron, flat iron, or polishing iron, as it may be termed.

All or most flat irons consist of a block of metal, with a handle attached to it, the said blockbeing made with a smoothv or polished bottom and sides. My improved 'article is so made, and besides this it has` an improvement in the form of it, by which it is better adapted to what is termed polishing a starched surface, than most or any irons heretofore in use. The said improvement consists in making the bottom part of it with a series of two or morepolishing ridges or rounded projections a, b, c, and concavities d, e, between such'ridges, said ridges being made to extend across theinstrument, and to run either diagonally or t at right angles to its sides. When the polishing iron so made `is placed upon any starched article to be polished, the rounded projections only rest in contact with it; and thus the whole weight of the iron, instead of being distributed over a flat surface as in the common iron, is brought to bear on the diminished surfaces, edges, or projections d, Z), c. Consequently much less exertion i will be required to press and move the iron upon the surface to be polished, and besides the polishing is done equally as well, if not far superior to what can be effected by the` j EDWARD CIJ-APF.

Witnesses:

JNO. Go'rEsBURY,

E. II. KINGSBURY. 

